Bou-Râs

Bou-Râs is a town in located in Tissemsilt, Algeria, North Africa, located at latitude 33.6667°, longitude 1.8333° and an elevation above sea level of 956 metres.[1] It is on the Oued Hassi Bou Râs river.[2]

During the Roman Empire the town was called[3] Arsennaria, a civitas of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[4]

References

  1. ^ Sidi Bou Râs at geoview.info.org.
  2. ^ Traveling Luck for Oued Hassi Bou Râs, Algeria (general), Algeria.
  3. ^ T. W. Potter, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Musones: a Pleiades place resource' at Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012.
  4. ^ David M. Cheney, Arsennaritanus at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.


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